Many thanks to your dad. If you want for men like can we would enjoy the freedom that we have today.

My Uncle and his bubby escaped the massacre.

@@user-hu4lv2ml4q many thanks to your dad if it wasn’t for heroes like him we wouldn’t enjoy the freedom we have today.

⁠@@Americanpatriot-zo2tkwe are losing our country. If we didn’t side with Russia we wouldn’t live in a cesspool of corruption and immigrants in every former first world country. Also, saying soldiers were “murdered” in open war discredits the Americans that died. They were bested in a war of brothers. Crying over “murder”… your ancestors are flipping in their graves

​@@user-hu4lv2ml4q They were lucky! Glad they made it home! 🙏 💜 🌿

And I have a space ship and a pet alien named Pedro Gonzales 👽

@@seaeaglechamp hell yeah give me a ride sometime

4:24 the modern track made it into the video, bottom left of the frame

My Pop fought through both blackest with the 120th Regiment of the 30th Infantry. He said Stavelot and Profoundry were full of executed civilians. His unit J believe discovered the bodies at Malmendy .

Wow, thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Jeffbosworth8116: I always liked Charles Durning, a great actor in my opinion. I would always watch anything he appeared in, knowing it would be good.

​​​​​Bull..... it is well documentedthat the order was given to EXECUTE THE USA troops and that was not Peiper's only war crime.... " In 1949, a US Senate investigation concluded that in the thirty-six-day Battle of the Bulge the soldiers of Kampfgruppe Peiper murdered between 538 and 749 U.S. POWs,[13] other investigations claimed that the Waffen-SS killed fewer U.S. POWs, and put the figure of the dead as being between 300 and 375 US soldiers and 111 civilians executed by the Kampfgruppe Peiper.[14][15] And the sentences were not commuted due to ameican war crimes on the prisoners here is an excerpt from an article which summarizes the commuted sentences very well From The Washington Examiner. "The Truth, and Untruth, of a German Atrocity by Gabriel Schoenfeld June 13, 2017 10:50 AM.....excerpt below investigates the commuting of sentences " "As Everett and like-minded personages floated their accounts of German prisoners subjected to physical abuse, stories began to appear in various quarters of the American press. On the left, the Christian Century reported that American interrogators had employed "torture, both physical and mental," so cruel "as even the Nazi sadists never surpassed." The Progressive regaled its liberal readers with tales of "American Atrocities in Germany," as one of its articles was titled. On the right, Regnery published Freda Utley's The High Cost of Vengeance: How Our German Policy Is Leading Us to Bankruptcy and War (1949). One of the book's thrusts was to liken the depredations of American interrogators-those, in particular, with Jewish surnames like Kirschbaum and Metzger-to the crimes of Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, "and other Nazi bullies." It did not take long for the story to seep into the mainstream media and central institutions. Time hailed Everett for revealing abuses that "read like a record of Nazi atrocities." In the House, Rep. John Rankin (D-Miss.) declared that "a racial minority" was hanging not only German soldiers but also "trying to hang German businessmen, in the name of the United States." In the Senate, Joseph McCarthy, then a freshman, explained that the American interrogators from Fort Ritchie "did intensely hate the German people as a race." They were, he said, "men whose wives were in concentration camps," operating as a "vengeance team." The problem with all of this is that the allegations of abuse were false. Remy meticulously pursues the origins of the torture reports to a coordinated campaign devised by the SS defendants themselves while awaiting trial. He also reviews the numerous official inquiries prompted by Everett's insistent accusations, all of which turned up nothing resembling torture or any other form of illicit coercion. Colonel Everett's claim that the defendants "were given severe and frequent beatings and other corporal punishments" was based upon no evidence other than the statements of the SS men themselves. There had been no physical abuse. It was all a tissue of lies, tinged with anti-Semitism. Those accusing the Jews of operating on the basis of racial hatred were themselves driven by that base force. Truth always prevails, goes the saying. It did not prevail in this case; instead, the fake news won. One of Remy's contributions is to demonstrate that more than a few reputable historians of World War II have failed to do their spadework and accepted a pernicious myth as fact. He does not shrink from naming names and citing chapter and verse. Far more important, justice was not done. By 1957, all the SS murderers behind the Malmedy massacre were set free. None of the death sentences was carried out. The only retribution for the murder of American servicemen came decades later in less-than-perfect form: Joachim Peiper, the ranking SS officer responsible for the atrocity, was assassinated in 1976 by unknown assailants believed to be former members of the French Resistance. BTW. that bit of research took all of five minutes..take your flimsy bull somewhere else and read the article BTW the trial was held in Dachau prison 1945 to 1947....by then the inmates had been liberated and there is some discussion the American troops were so enraged by what they saw they did execute some of the camp guards and allowed inmates to beat others to death.Considering the circumstances no war crimes were charged...justifiable homicide after seeing dachau...very one of those germans at Malmedyshould have been executed and all of Germany, man, woman and child were complicit in the war crimes of the second world war...germans wore clothes and shoes from the jews for years after the war while the Marshal Plan rebuilt Germany financed and implemented by the USA and USA businesses. Germany got off light. It should have been broken into hundreds of small countries none bigger than Switzerland. It's not done yet. George Soros an old nazi is still financing chaos just like he did in world War two selling the possessions of jews sent to be gassed for a commission from the third reich ..... l​@@williamzk9083

I never knew that about Durning, thanks. I liked him as an actor and now I like him as an American GI

I've read that but I've never seen any corroborating evidence. The fact is the Germans were busy killing American prisoners in a number of places. The lowest estimate is over 300 were murdered. US Army units involved in the Battle of the Bulge exacted their vengeance. The most notorious act of revenge was on New Years day when an estimated 80 German prisoners were reportedly murdered by members of the 11th Armored Division at Chenogne, Belgium. Patton heard about it and wrote in his diaries that he hoped news of it would not get out. It did and Eisenhower was furious. He demanded an investigation, but nothing much ever came of it. To the victors go the spoils. All else gets buried in the fog of war.

His life was protected by a higher poiwer...

Glad you enjoyed it!

And why?

And why what Kal? Self-centered child!

@@TC-dw6wg Too stupid to understand? Not my problem.

Thanks very much!

Gotta love self-centered comments!

@@TC-dw6wg … Well don’t post them 🙄

Wow! My dad served in the Pacific and I was so blessed to go to many of his Navy reunions and meet the great people he served with. I taught history and always wanted to meet someone who had been on the beaches on DDay. One day in a Goodwill in San Antonio I saw an old man with a cap that said D-Day. I couldn't believe it and I asked him if he had actually been there. He said yes and I got so excited, telling him how much I had always wanted to meet a survivor. As I animatedly talked to him people started stealing glances, thinking he was some celebrity. To me he was better than any celebrity! With tears in his eyes he said, "Young lady. I'm 84 years old and I lost my wife six years ago. I never dreamed of remarrying but if you weren't so young, I'd ask you to marry me right now. Thank you for making me feel like life matters." I wanted to cry and I regret not getting his information so that I could have called to check on him. This was about fifteen years ago. I lost my dad ten years ago. Not a day goes by that I am not proud of his service as you are of your dad's. The Greatest Generation

@rebecajohnston1135 .Thank you for your lovely reply..its great that we are proud of our parents generation..what they went through for 6 yrs from '39 to '45 was awful..l lost my dad to cancer in 79 when l was just 19 yrs old..l was a 'daddy's girl' and grew up following him wherever he went whatever he did..so l grew up being able to put up shelves..decorate..created cement paths..a patio with 2 x 2 slabs..l tiled my kitchen and bathrooms myself 😂 my parent raised 3 very self sufficient girls..they were l suppose ahead of the game there.. my dad was stationed over here 🇬🇧 doing specialist training and met mom on a blind date..6 months later they got married on 17th Feb 1944.. dad had 2 days leave then went back to training..little did he know it was for DDAY.. my mom moved to USA as a 'G I Bride'.. but came back 5 yrs later to look after her mom.. who actually didn't go to her wedding because she was marrying "a yank'.. however over the next 4 years my wonderful dad was fantastic in helping to look after my nan..l obviously wasn't born then..but after 6 months she turned to my mom and said Sylvia l was so wrong you have a good man there..!! In all my years l never heard my dad call her by her name..he ALWAYS called her Honey.. we moved back to the states in the early 70's as it was rather grim here in the UK..but after 7 yrs came back ..it was meant to be as 2 yrs later we lost my wonderful daddy.. l lost my mom in 2002 after looking after her with Alzheimers for 7 yrs..l miss them so very much but know when it's my turn they'll be there waiting for me ready to give me a big hug...🇬🇧💕💕🙏✝️👍👏🇺🇸

Isn’t it horrific what took place in this video? SMH!

Peiper fought in Russia with great skill, he was highly decorated, and there his units often killed Russian POWs, it was a common practice on the Eastern front --civilians were often killed as well, many civilians were killed by Germans during the battle of the Bulge

Wow, really appreciate that Josh, thanks very much!

Much appreciated!

Thanks very much mate, its a great spot to visit!

Who "underrated" it?

Thank you very much!

@@BattleGuideVT you are a liar because the allies and the reds killed much more innocent people!!!!

I hate autocorrect. It's LAND MINE not Land minds.

Don't forget Eddie Albert of Green Acres fame. read what he did..

I agree mikealvear,.your comment says it all..causing us to backtrack every thing we write..

spoiler: they were killing regular german surrendered soldiers long before Malmedy ever happened.

americans committed atrocious crimes too, all way to the Vietnam wars

There is also a book called 'The Damned Engineers" by Janice Holt that recounts the history of the 291st.

No problem, thanks for taking the time to watch!

Glad you enjoyed it!

bah, every german officer was guilty.

it was the Western front and no, americans did not murder prisoners en masse. with the approval of their commanders. bastards.

Tha ks very much, re the arrow, we are working on it but its tricky with a dynamic screen, hopefully coming soon!

@@BattleGuideVT In some programs like Google Earth you can draw a few colored lines on the ground surface, a simple arrow, maybe an N for north.

Patton commanded the 3rd Army

7th pre D Day, 3rd post D Day.

So what had been their excuse for killing prisoners in Lorraine, Normandy and Sicily beforehand? Face it: Americans and German SS had a similar track record when it came to treatment of prisoners of war:- 1) Bit nasty in Western Europe. 2) Unspeakable in the East: SS with Russians; ‘Murcans with Japanese (and later, Koreans, Vietnamese, Eye-raqis and so forth) That’s always amazed me. The Germans produced Goethe, Schiller and Brahms; the USA produced… err… Walt Disney. But give them a gun and power over the helpless and both behave like sociopaths. I suspect it’s down to the racism. The Germans appear to have changed, thankfully.

​@@user-bf2cv9xo7x7th army was under Patch next to 3rd army territory.

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The Americans committed a lot more than “a couple” of massacres of German soldiers. There were about a hundred cases where the Americans killed German POWs after they had surrendered. One time in 1976, I met a guy about 50 years old, who was in the US army during the Battle of the Bulge. He said that one time they trapped 33 German soldiers inside a French church. The Americans ordered them all to come out with their hands up. The German soldiers came out and were searched for guns before the Americans killed them all. And in 1991, a different old man who was in the Battle of the Bulge told me that every time the Americans took any prisoners, the sergeants and lieutenants would tell their men to march the prisoners to the trucks and drive them to a POW camp. The problem was that there were never any trucks. Whenever they said that-it was just code for killing the prisoners!

@@georgewolfiii1170 Oh, I agree but I meant they had a couple of massacres of over a hundred prisoners at a time in direct response to Malmedy and they had been ordered not to take any Nazi SS prisoners, but they executed regular Wehrmacht prisoners as well, many of them being young boys. General Patton had an entry in his diary where he said that he had heard of the killings and hoped that it would not get out.

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@@keithday3658 Imbecile

​@georgewolfiii1170 mu uncle said they killed all and Hitler youth same way March then back be back in 5 minutes, code for excute them. He said they nothing you could do with them they were brainwashed. My step grandfather said same thing.

Hi Paladin, we covered the I&R action at Lanzerath some time ago, there is a video here on YT :)

@@BattleGuideVT Thanks, I'll look it up.

@@michaelpielorz9283 No, because I've never heard of an American general who ever said that. It would be a good way to get fired.

Yet those are never spoken of. They will say "the horrors of war scared their minds so they commited these atrocities"

@@jeramysamarawickrama7633the Chenogne massacre is well documented. And although not correct and definitely a war crime.the German army had a childish mindset that they could fuck around with everyone else and not face any revenge. If you go around shooting prisoners in fields, you set the tone for how your enemy might treat you.

​@@jeramysamarawickrama7633 Committing and defending systematic genocide tends to make people feel no sympathy towards you.

@@CoyoteBrandChili you know your justifying war crimes yourself now. Your doing the classic "they started it"

@@jeramysamarawickrama7633lol no I didn't. I just said I don't feel much sympathy for people who enact and defend genociding other people.

Thanks for watching!

Hmm. The French is passable; the German is dreadful. I take it you don’t speak the latter?

​@@robertcottam8824where did I go wrong with the German (we have German team members who didn't raise anything)? Did I mispronounce something? I do speak French btw.

Thanks very much!

Learning German I found the ch sound came quite easily but fellow Brit school kids seemed to have real trouble with it settling on an itch, k or sh sound. It's a hiss made on the upper rear of the mouth with a humped tongue pressing up and outwards on the rearmost top teeth. That's the best way I can describe it. (Getting odd looks from the whole train carriage as I try to work out how I'm doing it 😆)

Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it! Do feel free to share, it's really helpful! :)

Big with my history! This channel hits differently compared to others! Brilliant stuff!

Thanks for watching Darty!

Consent. Regards from Poland.

Awesome thank you!

Glad you thought so, thanks for taking the time to watch Simon.

Yours is an asinine conclusion.

Prove it

lol

Hi Marc, is that something you'd like to see?

@BattleGuideVT Yes, I'm really interested in the psychology of men in combat. There is a reason for what they do, combatants on all sides do this.

@@BattleGuideVT Yes, I think it would make a great video just like this one. The massacre occurred on June 7, 1944 near the town of Authie in Normandy near an abbey. The perpetrators were the 12th SS Panzer Hitlerjugend Division under the command of Colonel Kurt Meyer. The victims were over 150 Canadians of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, 27th Armored Regiment (Sherbrooke Fusiliers), Royal Winnipeg Rifles & possibly a couple of British prisoners. They were supposed to be transported as POW's but somehow a decision was made by Meyer to execute them instead and conceal it. His future was similar to Peipers in the sense that he was tried after the war, but did little time for the crime and even worked for Coca-Cola in France and or Germany after the war, much to the chargrin and protests of many citizens. I believe it would make an outstanding video such as this one.

Thanks very much, glad you liked the video and we will certainly take that on board 👍

@@BattleGuideVT Great stuff man, thanks so much for the content.

I read 3 US POWs were released at some point in the Vietnam war for propaganda reasons, they were captured in battle and held prisoner for a time then released, can't give you more details yet

They were rather better trained than the Americans who were essentially an armed mob compared to the Germans - and Canadians, Poles, Brits and Free-French forces, for that matter. I’m their favour, there were a lot of ‘em by late ‘44. Best wishes

@@robertcottam8824 the americans were conscripts and had no military background, they got hammered early but got better. we left our homes 1k miles away to help. we did not have to. they germans werent as good as you say. they had experience, that's all.

Did the bomber crews that fire bombed millions of German civilians face justice? I don’t think so….neither side can really point fingers. 50,000 dead in the bombing of Hamburg in 3 days. That side of the story seems to slip the mind

What "he" are you talking about?

Agree. There is much about the eastern front that needs to be taught in the west. Not just that, but how Russia contributed to the defeat of the third Reich.

Thank you very much!

Oh please. The "everyone did it" excuse for the Nazis. The Germans didn't have a few bad apples - it was institutionalised.

In which war have the English behaved worse than the Americans, Germans or French, poppet? Saying something doesn’t make it true. 💋

@@robertcottam8824 or the americans. the japanese were astounded by the compassion of the us troops. AFTER the fight.

Hello, which part of this video about the Malmedy Massacre do you feel that relates to?

​@@BattleGuideVTThe trigger of the shooting is still debated today, some accounts claim the Americans disarmed some of the SS and attempted a breakout. The scene was depicted in Saints and Soldiers

The video is not about contrasting war atrocities, so it's unclear how an entirely separate story about the war was "left out" of this one. it's not as though any of this is unknown to even the average amateur historian of the war, much less to professional historians, or is hidden in some way. There ARE videos about "Allied executions of German POWs," if you're really interested. Just try that as a search term...you'll see.

yes it is. and you are talkng about guys that had just been hammered and were furious. not the wholesale slaughter of the axis.

@@tekay44 You didn't hear the Colonel (corporal then) who told me the story as part of an Army class on war crimes. These "Screaming Eagles" had been captured as soon as their boots hit the ground. The German soldiers who captured the Americans kept them with them overnight in a barn. The next morning the German Seargeant saw US Army vehicles going down the road past the farm. He realized they were behind enemy lines and ordered his men to give their weapons to the Americans and surrendered to them. The U.S. Seargeant then took the Germans behind the barn and shot them dead. He also told us that the reputation of the 101st was so bad that other Army units would reroute their German POWs around the 101st when processing them to the rear areas.

Melmedy Massacre - 17th Dec 1944. Chernogne Massacre - 1st Jan 1945. The Americans took their revenge. Both actions happened during the Battle of the Bulge. After the Melmedy Massacre the Americans didn't trust the Germans anymore to treat prisoners within the rules of war anymore. So why should they?

,well said same as the Russians raping and murdering German woman and children under stalin

Derin111: If as you say, there are numerous unrecorded instances, how did you learn of them?

@@StevenKeery He didn't, he is a nazi apologist.

@@harryfaber Where?

Thanks very much, unfortunately with a subject like this we get flooded with that kind of stuff

@@BattleGuideVT What are even those people? Neonazis with multiple accounts? Edgy teenagers? Both??? If, in my wildest dreams, i ever had such a high quality historical channel as yours, i would ban them without a reply. They don't deserve this grade A free content!

Yes, Chenogne a short while later. The American troops who carried that out were just regular armored division troops.

no Adolf no war.

Theres a few videos on KZfaq. Especially Patrons treatment of German POWs in concentration "death camps'.

They do though? Even Hollywood movies ect show this. Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Fury. All show U.S. soldiers killing surrendered soldiers

But it acts like this that the spurred allies to do it in revenge. The SS fucked around and found out during the war. There is a difference between an I’ll disciplined soldier taking his rage out on a prisoner (still completely wrong) and force marching a large group into a field that has a pre organised machine gun there.